Eddie Vedder has delivered a stunning cover of ‘Maybe It’s Time’, from the chart-topping A Star Is Born soundtrack.
Back in 2018, Bradley Cooper released his remake of the classic film, A Star Is Born. Featuring Cooper and Lady Gaga in the lead roles, the film has gone on to become a stunning success, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ‘Shallow’ in the process.
Meanwhile, the soundtrack itself has received widespread acclaim as well, topping charts the world over as fans find themselves enamoured with the film’s songs.
Now, it sounds as though Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder is a rather huge fan of the film as well, covering the Jason Isbell-penned ‘Maybe It’s Time’ at his recent performance in Arizona.
Reacting to this news, Jason Isbell could barely contain his excitement. “Holy shit Eddie Vedder sang my Bradley Cooper song in his set tonight,” he wrote on Twitter. “That is by far the strangest sentence I’ve ever composed but it’s certainly a huge honor.”
“I was 12 when [Pearl Jam’s] Ten came out and by god I learned how to play every song on it.”
Check out Eddie Vedder performing ‘Maybe It’s Time’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=842vGmFgMOg
However, Eddie Vedder’s decision to cover the song might not be all that strange, especially considering Bradley Cooper’s role of Jackson Maine was based on Vedder himself.
Speaking during a press junket last year, Cooper explained that he became good friends with Eddie Vedder, using the Pearl Jam frontman as a source to help prepare himself for the lead role in the film.
“I went up to Seattle and spent four or five days with him and I asked him 9,000 questions,” Cooper explained. “And he gave me minor, little things that only musicians know about what to do, just aesthetically and the inner workings.”
However, when Eddie Vedder learnt that Bradley Cooper was planning to actually sing in the film, he was less than impressed. “He thought it was crazy I was going to do this movie,” Cooper noted. “He was like, ‘What? Bro, don’t do that.’”
Despite Vedder’s initial objections, it seems as though it all paid off in the end though, with the film bringing in more than $429 million at the box office to date.
Check out Bradley Cooper performing ‘Maybe It’s Time’:
